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The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

THE first veto message of the SEES
sion was read in the senate chamber
last Friday. The governor disap-
proves the bill to allow butchers and
bakers to keep their business houses
open on Sunday. Several senators
have said that the bill Will be pass
ed Notwithstanding the veto, but we
shall see.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

ONE or two of our state exchang-
es have been "pained to announce"
the death of Gen. r. G. Newton of
Little Rock. 1t is true, the General
was very sick man, and for while
at deaths door, but we. "view with
pride" the fact that he is now conya-
lescent and restored to the compan
ionship of his hosts OF friends.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

THE initial number of the Clarks.
vile Journal, published by j. w.
Adams at Clarksyille, Ark, has
reached us. 1t takes the field as an
independent, with democratic predi
lections. Success to it.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

VINCENT, the defauting state
treasurer of Alabama, was captured
in Texas the other day and taken
back to the scene of his crime. He
defaulted IN 1883 to the amount of
$250,000 and fled to Mexico. Five
thousand dollars was paid for his
capture.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

A BILL providing method to Sc
cure a financial settlement between
the United States and the state of
Arkansas has become law, and I'M
der its operation 1t is believed a
handsome balance due the state will
be realized.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

A LULL in the real estate boom
is reported from Fort Smith and
Van Buren,. 1t is given presumably
to allow the rushing investors time
to catch their breath for a fresh
start.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

GREAT excitement prevails at Col
den City, new mining town in Lo'
gan county, forty miles south of
Fort Smith, over the mlnera. dis
coveries being made. A big mining
boom is anticipated.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

Judge John NJ. Bradley, after a
lengthy and most painful Illness,
died at his residence in Warren on
the 10Th. He was i'll fo" many
months with a disease partaking in
many features ofleprousy, and which
bafiled medical skill.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

ARKANSAS undisputed debt, in
round numbers, Is 100000 princi-
pal and 100000 interest. Four
bills looking to the putting of the
state on bonded debt paying basis,
have been considered by our present
legislature.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

JAY Gould is reported as saying
recently that riches make man I'M
happy, and that the lot Of poor
man is to be coveted rather than
that of rich man. Mr.. Gould might
carry his ideas into effect by trans
fernng his millions to certain poor
folks we wot Of They would cheer
fully accept the misery riches entail.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

THE machine shops Of the Frisco
road are to be located at Van Buren,,
and quite nutter in business cir.
cles has resulted in consequence Of
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

THE $250,000 rendered the state
in payment of back taxes by the
Iron Mountain railroad company has
been paid into the treasury.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23
Fort Smith and Van Buren, are to
be connected by street railway.


be connected by street railway.
G. Sawyers, Philadelphia sewing
machine manufacturer, is in Little
Rock, where he Is thinking Of loea
ting a $4,000 mandatory.
The sixty.eight anniversary Of
the establishment Of the order Of
ODD Fellows occurs April 26th, and
will be appropriately celebrated by
various lodges throughout the State
The State Senate has at last found
a question for discussion worthy Of
its dignity and talent. A dog law
bill has been introduced in that au-
gust body.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

REPRESENTATIVE Sibley's bill to
reduce and fix the compensation OF
assessors was defeated by the sen
ato
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

OVER SIS, 100000 of outside cap
ital was invested last year in Arkan-
sas.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

TUE enormous sum of 1851 1851, +
144 were appropriated by the 49th
congress for various purposes.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-03-23

rIyO ADYEk Users Lowest Rates for ad
i yertising in 1000 good newspapers sent
free. Address GEO. r. HOWELL n CO., 10
Spruce St., n. Y.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-03

formed wholly of real pearls or enameled !;
in the heart of the daisy is diamond
dewdrop
costume popular with young ladies
is killed skirt and Grecian draperY of
checked English homespun in several
cOlors, handsomely blended. The postil-
ion basque, as severe in shape and finish
as that of al English riding habit, is made
of plain ecru pilot cloth or English ar
mure, with finely stitched edges and q
row Of small bronze and enamel buttons
up the front. The sleeves button up the
back to the elbow.
Newly imported Paris dresses show all
these new fabrics made up with Volumin-
Gus draperies Of most irregular arrange
ment, no TWO dresses being alike, and the
sides of each dress being draped differ
entity. sometimes this variety is carried
so far as to make one half Of the dress
like a polonaise, while the other half is Z
basque with overskiTt or panier dTa-
peries. This last caprice is seen not only
in the silken fabrics for the house, but in
the tailor dresses of serge, cloth and
cancels hair.
Fans this season have mOuntings Of
dark wood OR shell. The former are black
or in medium tints of biege, and the
latter are of light or dark shell. The
favorIte fans are of block Chsntilly lace
on a grenadine ground, dotted with very
small spangles. Steel and Jet spangles
are much used. Fans in white or light
colors have fine lace on the lower part,
and painted gauze above. They have
plain mountiDgs Of light she'll. Large fans
OF white or gray ostrich pIumes have also
light shell mOuutiGgs.
Many night dresses are now low in the
neck and have short sleeves like che
misses. They are not quite as low, bow
ever, as chemises. d pretty trimming
for the ordinary high necked night dress
consists Of two gathered rows OF lace or
embroidery, forming q deep collar open
in front. The sleeves are wide. The
best chemises are those without Jokes.
They open in heart shape in the neck,
where they are scallOped. The chemises
are also embroidered around the arm, as
they have no sleeves.
Turbaus are to be much worn Tor morn
ing or ordinary walking purposes; in fact,
they serve for all but the most dTessy Oc-
casi0ns. Many of them will be of light
tissues, such as black or dark cOlOred
tulle and black lace trimmed with flowers
and aigrattes. Among the other shapes
are capOtes aud OOnnets in MamOn style,
called shell bonnets. They ere small and
are somewhat like a turnedOver basket.
There are also CapOteS With round crown,
some OF which are divided into three
parts. Trimmings are still pointed il
front, and consist of feather aigrettes, rib
bons and Iaces. They are not quite as
high as they have been this winter.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-03
LADIES' COLUMN.
The Adjournment of the Head is Now
l.. tbgDebatabis Ground in FASH
K ions Aingdom.
Form Hints in the NebUl@ Of Spring
Tfme-HeIps to Perplexed
MammRs.
bur Daughters and Thsir Duties-Dregs
Models, Fashion Notes, Misc-I-
Ianeous Recipes, E,c.
CLOSED ii 8 golden ring.

A ,.5vn Of grass green silk she wore,
3nS led with golden clasps before;
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-03
AN ENGLISH DRESS.

A very stylish dress recently brought
over from England is of hand-woven
cancels hair in indigo-blue and mOrdore
cOloring, the lines of the latter color be-
ing so subdued as to be only just appar-
ent. The dress is cut pOlolaise fashion,
with blue velvet yoke, tichu vest and
velvet cuffs. The fiChu is drawn in at the
waist by band of velvet, fastening on
one side with handsome clasps and ends,
the large sailor collar being held in place
ct each side by three large buttons on
the shoulders, the long full skirt draper
les falling over petticoat Of the same
cloth
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-03
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Ice Lenses.

The London correspondent of lie Mon
iteur de la Photographic writes to that
journal that in the middle of the winter
which has just elapsed student had
made lense of ice, with which he lit
the pipes of some of the skaters on the
Serpentine by means of the solar ray, an
experiment, he says, which was first per-
formed in the Polar region by DR.. Scores
by, to the great astonishment of the sail
ors, for they could not understand why
the ice did not freeze the beams of the
sun. We may remark that Professor
Tyndall at times would set fire, at the
Royal Institution, to little heap of
eunpowder with rays from the electric
arc concentrated upon the powder by
means of u lens of ice. His explanation
was that, although the ice absorbs rays OF
certain wave lengths, and is gradually
melted thereby, other waves it does not
absorb, and these latter produce the heat
inp effect at the focus Of the lens. 1t is
wholly o question of the relative motions
of the molecules of frozen water and the
motions of the waves of light; when
there is discord between the two, the
discordant waves pass through the ice
without absorption.-Brata& Journal Of
Photography.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The Vedic hymns are an old Hindos-
tanee collection of songs dating back
probably 1000 years.
In Laredo, Texas, they raise onions
weighing two and one-half pounds and
measuring twenty inches in circumfer-
ence.
A curfew ordinance at Tombstone,
Arizona, requires every one under eight
cen years of age to go home at the ring
ing of bell at $50 P. NJ.
Egypt declined with the rise of Greece; ;
in fact, she never recovered from the ef-
fects of the atrocious Persian invasion
under Cambyses, 525 B. G.
The first auction ever held was in Great
Britain, in 1900, when Elishur, Gov
ernor of Fort George, in the East Indies,
publicly sold the goods he had brought
home to the highest bidder.
There was recently unearthed at jack
sonville, ILL.,, while excavations were be-
ing made for the asylum for the insane,
an apple which is believed to have been
buried fourteen years. The apple was IN
good condition considering its age.
In the strawberry regions of New Jer-
sey a cigar box is nailed on a tree close
to the roadside in front of every farm
house. 1t is placed there to receive the
latest quotations for fruit. These quo
tations are telegraphed from the leading
cities three times day, and are distribu-
ted by messengers mounted on bicycle.
The fruit grower determines by the quo
tations whether he will ship his days
picking.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
The Cat and the Iron Pot.

There was once cat who had strong
pull with the. cook, and for this reason
lived in the delusion that she was rum
ming the whole kitchen.
And old iron pot which had incurred
the ill-will of this cat was peacefully
resting on the floor after its morning
labors, when the cat approached and In
solently demanded that the pot should
not sing ON the stove while her catshiR
was taking her morning nap. -,
"I sing over my work because l Like
it." said the pot, land shall not stop
for such lazy, selfish, yawning creature
as YOU" ~
This 80 enraged the cat that she lifted
her paw and pulled the pot over; but 1t
was half filled with cold soup, and with
a shrek of dismay the cat fled to the
melancholy solitudes of the cellar, and
has ever since been trying to clean her
self up.
Moral: Don't attempt to iniure any
body without first considering the conse-
ouences.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Various Kinds OF COrk.Screws.

One would hardly think that more than
three or four varieties were required, but
there are about forty on the market.
They include the ring handle, steel wire
screws for demijhon and large bottles;
the double-ring, handily -encased pocket
screw; the folding screw and the broad
wire-handle screw. Some time ago an
ice-pick and cigar-box opener was made
with screw concealed in the steel tube
handle. The tube can be slipped off and
the ice pick forms the handle Of the
screw. Another novelty has brush in
the handle, 80 that the colored waiter is
not obliged to run his fingers around the
inside. of the neck of wine bottle to
remove the particles of cork and dust
For champagne bottles a screw is made
with blade in one end of the handle to-
cut the twine around the cork. Another
handle contains both the knife and brush
ON the handle. The power corkscrew is
an ingenious arrangement which saves
the knees and arms from tussel with
nm obstinate and fsactious cork. A cone
Of steel fits over the neck of the bottle,
and the screw draws the cork while the
cone presses ON the bottle. In addition
to his corkscrew patents, Newark man
amused himself by twisting up wire into
almost every conceivable shape, thereby
supplying the fve-eent counters with
novelties and himself with comfortable
income, in addition to that previously
made by his ingenious faculties. The
spiral thumb. b.screw, which can be pushed
into board and easily removed, after
serving as temporary hat rack, is one of
his Inventions. It is only piece of
twisted wire: Spiral paper hooks, wall
hooks, hat and coat racks, spiral picture
nails, spiral carpet tacks and stair but
tons, card suspenders and holders, bill
files, soap holders, pickle forks, toasting
and vegetable forks and shoe button
hooks are his inventions, and are manu-
factured in Newark. York Mail
and Erpress
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
The First Balloon.

This narrow belt of level ground at
Avignon between the foot of the wall and
the brink of the Rhone witnessed 105
years ago very strange and memorable
spectacle, writes a correspondent of the
New York Times. One fine morning in
1882, Just about the time when many of
the Frenchmen who had been fighting
for American independence were begin
ming to straggle home again, there was
great excitement in Avignon. Through
the river gate the townspeople came
pouring by hundreds and by thousands to
crowd around group of local officials
and scientific experts who were standing
on the bank beside large silken bag,
which was hcaving and bullying in a
curious way as if it were gradually in
flated with air. The better informed
among the crowd eagerly announced to
their neighbors that the two men who
were so busy with this bag of silk-"two
crazy fellows named Montgolfier'-had
undertaken to send it up into the air as
an experiment, having been foolish
enough to assert the possibility of ofmaking
similar bags OF larger size to navigate the
sky just as ships navigate the sea, carry
ing with them number OF men fully
equipped with all necessary stores and
implements. The general laugh which
greeted the thought of such an ex-
travagant absurdity had scarcely died
away when the unbelievers were con-
founded to see the silken case (Which
the "two crazy fellows" had fully in
6ated by this time) give one final heave
and then sail slowly upward into the air,
passing over the town at hight of several
hundred feet. The first balloon had been
launched into space.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Cuba rs 1t Is,

The island has more fine harbors than
any other country of its size, and it is no
wonder that the buccaneers of the Spanish
main selected it as the center of their
piratical enterprises. 1t has two hun
dred and sixty rivers and plenty of fresh
water springs. 1t never SHOWS in Cuba,
though the ice sometimes forms upon the
mountains. The babies can 90 naked
here the year round, and as for the
stocking trade of Havana, its customers
are confined to the higher classes.
Neither stockings nor suspenders are
used bv the laborers, and 1 doubt
whether there are one thousand pairs of
suspenders worn by the one million five
hundred thousand people who make up
that islands population. They use in
stead q belt-strap, and the majority of
the workingmen of the island confine
their apparel to an undershirt and trow-
sers. The better class of men dress in
white duck, with Panama hats.
The lower class of 'w6men wear few
underclothes, and calico wrapper and
pair of heelless slippers are wardrobe.
There are no carpets on the floors nor
plaster on ceilings. Iron bars take the
place of glass windows, and there is not
chimney nor cooking stove in Ha-
vana. There are no barns, and the
horses are washed in the harbors instead
of being curried. There are no bricks
used in the sidewalks, and the average
sidewalk is three feet wide and of stone.
The building stone used is a porous one,
and this is covered with stucco. Havana
has parks, but there is no grass in them,
and as for shade, it can be got only by
going to the mountains.
The policemen carry swords and guns,
and the Offices of all kinds are filled by
Spaniards. There are no mattresses on
the Cuban beds, and as for feather pill
Lows, there are not feathers enough used
here to make a wad for the earache.
There are few china pitchers used in
Havana, and the drinking mug is of por-'
GUS clay, with hole at the top, out of
which the water is poured into the mouth
in trickling stream. Red brick tiles
take the place of shingles and the tops
of the houses are used in the evenings
for sitting rooms. The gardens of Ha-
vana are inside the houses, instead of be-
hind them.
The Cuban takes oranges, bread and
butter and coffee for breakfast. He
pares his oranges as we do apples, and
you find plates of pared oranges before
you on the table when you sit down to
the morning meal. The way to eat these
oranges is to drive fork into them,
plant your teeth firmly into the luscious
fruit and suck the juice. The Cuban
breakfast is taken on rising, and there is
another breakfast about or 10 o'clock.
This is moro like the American meal, and
the whole city knocks off for it. Passing
along the street at this time you may see
families at their meals through the open
windows and doors, and an hour or two
later the whole town seems to be taking
a sesta. Dinner is eaten between 5 and
o'clock, and the stores keep open un-
til about o'clock in the evening
Home Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Prohibition Prohibits In Maine.

The National Temperance Advocate says
Articles have recently appeared, In the news
papers purporting to be written by pro-
hibitionists from Maine, attempting to show
that prohibition is failure, is not enforced,
and not finger raised for its enforcement.
These articles are freely copied into the liquor
press over the country, and in Texas and
Tennessee are scattered by tho hundred
Thousand TO defeat the amendment m these
States No one pretends that all illegal sales
are entirely suppressed, but the law as q
whole; outside two or three cities, is per-
manent and wonderful success. We sent
these articles to Hon. Nelson Dingley, Jr.,
who is perfectly familiar with the workings
of the law and an entirely trustworthy wit
ness. in the case. He says:
"The letter is most gross perversion OF
the facts. As q matter Of fact the law was
never better enforced than it is now, as a
whole-the exceptions being a few cities
where the foreign element is very large. The
amendments to the law adopted by the Last
Legislature are aiding us wonderfully"
The Lewiston tMe.) Journal saYsS -The
more the Maine rumseller looks over the
amended prohibitory law Of Maine the Less
he is inclined to overlook it. 1t has the real
grip to.it. Our Rocllland special gives the
comment Of an Eastern Maine rumSeller who
could stand the fires of the old law but who
surrendered to Prima facie. We congratu-
late him on his surrender. There ls' pr1ma
facie evidence that he has abandoned
mighty mean business. Let him now start
real cold-uater mineral spring and go IN
peace!
1.-THE attempt to evade the law by import
ing original packages Of grog is also fraught
with peril. The Augusta and Bar Harbor
rumsellers who attempt thus to sell may yet
be anenable to the law; there is some doubt
about their right to do thus even under judi
cial decisions; but it is settled that they cam
not sell packages of less than dozen bottles
or less than fourteen gallons. The fact is, the
greg shops in Maine are pretty well cor
neredn